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Chapter 457 Subversion of Imagination
To say that "Gravity" actually belongs to the kind of movie with a very small number of actors. Apart from Fu Luo and Nicolas Cage, there are probably only two small characters who showed their faces and died soon. , this interpersonal relationship is also quite simple.

Then, under the introduction of Alfonso Cuarón, Fu Luo went on to meet Emmanuel Nubezki and David Heyman.

The former is a photographer who has been nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. In the future, he won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for three consecutive years with "Gravity", "Birdman" and "The Revenant". The absolute master figure seems to be Alfonso Cuarón's fellow Mexican.

The latter's David Heyman is one of the producers sent by Warner Bros., and he is the producer of the very famous "Haribo Pains" series of films.

As we all know, the crew in Hollywood is a producer-centered system, which is completely different from the director-centered system in China.

Just like when Zhang Yimou filmed "The Great Wall" in the future, because it is a Hollywood production model, it also adopts a producer-centered system. Therefore, the film materials that Lao Mouzi finishes filming every day will be sent to the United States for the producer to review. Continue shooting if it passes, and reshoot if it fails.

Presumably Zhang Yimou, who is used to taking care of everything, felt more or less restrained when he was filming "The Great Wall".

To be honest, there is probably no director who likes to have a group of producers squatting on his head, but there is no way, unless he can get the status of Spielberg and Cameron, or he can only be obedient squatting.

When the preparations were first started, Dune had already decided to invest 5000 million US dollars in the project "Gravity".

Later, First Pictures also joined in, and also invested 3000 million US dollars, and the remaining 7000 million US dollars will be taken over by Warner Bros., with a total investment of 1.5 million US dollars, absolutely the standard of a top blockbuster.

Therefore, Sand Dune and First Pictures also sent producers over, and besides Jiang Xiaoyu, Adam West, the head of Sand Dune's US office, also became one of the producers.

As for First Pictures, there is a middle-aged man named Wang Shuiyang, about thirty years old, who can be regarded as his subordinate, and also the head of the production department of First Pictures.

And it’s not just the producers, there are also Sand Dune’s staff in some important positions. Anyway, they have fully participated in the production of this film, which means both supervision and learning.

After all, Sand Dune and First Pictures have invested 8000 million US dollars. Calculated according to the current exchange rate, there are more than 5 million yuan. This is not a small number, and you can't be too careful.

In addition, I have to mention that Fu Luo received an unprecedented 2000 million US dollars plus 15% of the film remuneration in the movie "Gravity", directly ranking among the top actors in the world.

In other words, Sandra Bullock, the heroine of "Gravity", was also paid 2000 million US dollars plus 15% bonus remuneration, and finally got an income of 7000 million US dollars +.

If the future situation remains the same, that is to say, Fu Luo is likely to get a return of 7000 million US dollars + with a single film, which can be regarded as creating a new record in Asia.

To say that he can have such a high salary, his starring roles in "500 Days with Summer", "2012", "John Wick" and "Criminal Connection" are absolutely indispensable.

Because the cumulative box office of these four films has reached 26 billion US dollars, every dollar paid to him can bring nearly 70 US dollars in return, which naturally puts his commercial value to the sky.

As soon as he mentioned the two movies "Jungk Chase" and "The Union", Fu Luo suddenly thought of "Jungk Chase 2" and "Fast 5". In this summer, these two movies It is about to be officially released.

For the former, after Paramount bought the complete copyright from him, he immediately started the production of the second part. Coincidentally, the actor found Keanu Reeves, a hard-working man. Hollywood stars, the historical inertia overlaps again, and I don't know how the screenwriter will make up the story.

As for why it is said that Lao Ji is a hard worker, my father is a drug dealer, my mother is a stripper, her daughter died when she was born, her girlfriend also got into a car accident two years later, and her sister who has been dependent on her since childhood also got leukemia. This kind of life falls into a It is conceivable for a big Hollywood star.

It may be that Lao Ji has seen through the world, so his daily life is like a homeless man, unkempt, without the image of a big star at all.

Inexplicably, Fu Luo really hoped that "John Wick 2", a movie that has little to do with him, would achieve a good result.

There is also "Furious 5", which is completely different from the latter, which will be officially released on April 28. He is particularly curious about how this movie will look like.

Anyway, after Fu Luo had a brief acquaintance with many people, Alfonso Cuaron took him to visit the set.

Then a strange building about several meters high in a square shape and a huge mechanical device that looks like a car wash made by an automobile factory immediately attracted his attention and gaze.

After a further explanation by Alfonso Cuarón, Fu Luo finally understood what that strange building was. Anyway, it was called a Light-Box (light box). It was about six meters high and three meters wide. About meters, it looks like a hollow box inside.

Of course, the most special thing is that the inner wall of the light box is composed of 190 six LED panels with a size of 0.6×0.6 meters, and there are 4096 LED lights on such an area. If we want to make a metaphor , probably a huge rectangular kaleidoscope.

The function of this thing is to use the computer to control the brightness and color changes of the LED lights, and then assist the camera in lighting. The importance of lighting to a movie is self-evident.

In addition, these panels can also display internal images such as space and spaceflight, so that when actors perform in the light box, they no longer need to imagine out of thin air against the green screen, and it is definitely more immersive feeling.

Anyway, that is to say, this light box is Fu Luo's next main battlefield. Many scenes will be shot in such a box, which is completely different from the shooting situation in the image. Except for the actor's face, everything else in this film is completely different. It is a movie with CG effects, which really subverts the tradition of shooting sci-fi movies with green screen.

Of course, there will still be some shots in "Gravity" that will still use green screen, and it's not really all discarded.

After explaining the light box, Alfonso Cuarón continued to explain the purpose of the huge mechanical device to Fu Luo. In fact, this thing is an auxiliary device for the IRIS system of the dynamic photography equipment Bot&Dolly.

To put it plainly and clearly, this thing is used to catch the camera, and then the actor will be fixed on a stand, and then the IRIS system will control the lens from the computer to shoot the picture from various angles, thus causing the actor The illusion of tumbling in space.

Did you feel subverted again? You never guessed that the scenes in space were filmed like this. The actors only need to make some subtle expressions and reactions. All kinds of tumbling and collisions are all caused by the camera itself. Luo felt amazing after listening to the explanation.

Originally, he thought that the movie would be shot in a space dedicated to weightlessness simulation, or in a large water tank, but the result was that the actors lay there without moving at all, and he didn't know if it was considered lying down or not. Made $2000 million?
In addition to these two devices, there is actually a "puppet device". The crew specially invited staff who had performed puppet remote control for the famous British drama "War Horse" to help the film shoot that kind of zero-gravity picture.

Everyone knows about the marionette show. Like operating a puppet, the actors are tied with ropes to control the weightless state of floating in mid-air.

In addition to these three devices, Fu Luo also saw a lot of partial scenery of spaceships, which were quite rough. Without special effects processing in the later stage, it could be seen what it was at all. Here, he really wanted to Sigh the charm brought by technology.

After visiting the crew, the filming will naturally not start immediately, because today is the last round of equipment adjustment. After all, they are all high-tech things, and they must be verified repeatedly.

And Fu Luo did not leave the crew, but communicated with director Alfonso Cuaron and Nicolas Cage about the movie "Gravity".

(End of this chapter)